Gina Ruffcorn

Gina Ruffcorn is in her nineteenth year of teaching at West Harrison Community School in Mondamin, Iowa. Over the years, she taught high school credit recovery, middle school, reading recovery, first grade, and sixth grade before she found her forever home in fifth grade. She has been the one and only fifth-grade teacher in the district for thirteen years and counting.

Gina has a bachelor’s degree from Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa, and a master’s degree in literacy and twenty-first century technologies from the University of Nebraska in Omaha.

Gina was one of the original founding members of Skype Master Teachers. She spent seven years as a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert and a Global Learning Mentor. Currently, she is a GoNoodle Ambassador, a Kahoot Ambassador, and a Kahoot Verified Educator.

In her spare time, Gina likes to yak on the phone with her daughter, Miranda, ride motorcycles with her husband, Mark, and watch bad reality T.V. with her two cats, Vivian and Dennis.

She can be easily reached in the Twitterverse @gruffcorn13.